Police: Thursday Beacon Hill shooting incidents related

Police believe a man who shot another man in his 40s on Beacon Hill is responsible for two other reports of shots fired in the area Thursday.

Officers gave additional details on the incidents Thursday evening.

At 3:27 p.m., Seattle police were called with a report of shots fired in the 10400 block of 67th Avenue South.

As officers were going to the scene, where a man was reportedly wounded in the street, police received another shots-fired call in the 5500 block of South Avon Street. The second call occurred six minutes after the first.

Calls to 911 said the suspect in the second incident was yelling and firing into the air, police said. The suspect fled on foot near the Rainier View Elementary School building, and the school was locked down.

The building is being leased from Seattle Public Schools by the Muslim Youth Academy, which is looking for a permanent site, Seattle Public Schools spokeswoman Patti Spencer said. It was not clear how many students were in the building at the time.

Police said the suspect did not enter the school – closed as a Seattle Public Schools program in June 2007 – and nobody inside was hurt.

At 3:43 p.m., a man with two gunshot wounds arrived at a former hospital in the 1200 block of 12th Avenue South. From there he was rushed to Harborview Medical Center with what police said were life-threatening injuries.

The suspect in all three incidents was described by police as a black man in his 20s with a slim build. He was wearing a blue dress shirt during the shootings.

Police believe the shooter and the man who was shot – the only person hurt in all three incidents – knew each other. A police dog tried to track the suspect, but was unsuccessful. Officers are asking that anyone with information about the incidents call 911.